Improvement in washing-machines



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UNITED STATES PETER LIEBER, 0F INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

PATENT QFFICE.

IMPROVEMENT IN WASHING-MACHINES.

,l Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. [69, ll 1, dated October 26, 1875; application led September 9, 1875. f

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PETER LIEBER, of Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana, have invented certain Improvements in Washing-Machines, of which the following is a specification:

This invention consists in the arrangement of rotating brushes attached to adjustable or yielding arms lixedon a shaft, and working vwithin a corrugated cylindrical shell, in which the clothesare placed to be operated upon by the brushes, the object being to produce a more effective andspeedy rubbing or scrubbing of the clothes, and at the same time to avoid the wearand abrasion incident to machines in ordlnary use.

vin wooden heads' D, in such manner as to leave space between the sections for the free ingress of the water or suds, which is placed in the case A, and the adjustable brushes E attached to adjustable or yielding arms F, ra-

A Vrotary motion, either continuous or reciprocating, is communicated to brushes E by means of crank H and gear-wheels I. and J, the latter being fixed on shaft G, the whole being constructed and arranged so as vto be readily removable from the case A, for the purpose of cleaning the several parts. A The brushes E may be attached to the arm F by means of spiral springs, so as to render them yielding, and the better to adapt them to varying quantities of clothing; or they may be made adjustable by means of set-screws or other convenient means, for the same purpose.

made on a curve of much less radius than the corrugated shell C, so as to provide greater space between the edges of the brushes and the shell than at the center. By this arrangement the brushes run over the clothes, and are not liable to carry them around with them.

The sections of corrugated sheet metal of which the shell C is formed are made narrow-say from three to five inches in width and are fixed into the heads D in such manner as to leave space between them for free ingress of the water or suds contained in box A. The action of the rotating brushes is to draw the suds through these openings into the shell C.

One or more of the sections of corrugated sheet metal forming the. shell .C are to be hinged, or otherwise arranged so as to be movable, for the purpose of introducing or removing the clothing. l

In order to prevent the clothes from wrapping around the shaft G, and thus be carried around by it, a loose tube, K, occupying all the space between the arms F, is arranged on the shaft, in such manner that it will not rotate with it, and thereby allow the clothes tol drop freely down upon the bottom of the corrugated shell, so as to be acted upon by the brushes as they are rotated.

`I claim as my invention- In combination with the stationary shell C, formed of corrugated sections, as set forth, the rotating brushes E, fixed on yielding or adjustable arms F, and the loose tube or covering K 011 shaft G, all arranged and operating substantiallyV as set forth.

PETER LIEBER. Witnesses:

O. F. MAYEEW, JACOB W. LoEPEE.

It will be observed* that the brushes E are 

